Entries Tagged as ‘collaborative learning’

March 26, 2009

Blackboard, on the iPhone

Following directly on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that PubMed has made a ihone application, today Blackboard released their highly rumored and much anticipated application for the iPhone.
While it won’t let students do any of the important course content, it will let them check assignments and send each other messages.
I’m sure course content will follow.
The [...]

October 2, 2008

Back to Business

Jeeze, I just notice that it’s been almost a month since my last LIT blog. Well, I’ve been busy! I’ve been working on the Phase 3/4 planning, ordering staff computers (which took way longer than expected because of theĀ  local interpretation of the Governor’s directive), upgrading student computers, overseeing the Pharos Printer changeover, changing the [...]

August 11, 2008

Computing in the cloud at the UW

As many of you know, I’ve been experimenting with gmail and related applications using my UW account now for about 6 months. Just moving my email over has has a profoundly positive effect on where and when I can work, how much work I can get done, and the ease of organizing, searching, and [...]

July 10, 2008

Learning cave mid-summer meeting

The learning cave folks (me, Beckie, and Erica) met this morning with Don and Tessa to talk about furniture and other issues that we’ve been working on.
Tessa showed us the proposed KI “Torsion on the Go!” chair that the University is putting in classrooms and we need to show them to the library staff. [...]